Welcome! You are not alone
Before doomscrolling and dead internet theory became a thing, the internet used to be a place of promise, excitement, and possibility. Surfing the web could be compared to urban flânerie: a surrender to the unexpected, drifting from website to website, from link to link. Serendipitous moments of discovery were free from the aura of suspicion that plagues today’s algorithmically enhanced social media experience (“why am I being shown this content?”), and felt earned, turning linksharing into an act of kinship and community-building.
(W)HOLE shows how, underneath the current desolated surface, the promise of a better digital world is still alive. Understanding the workings and trappings of digital infrastructure is an important first step to revive and fulfill this promise. In the repository, you will find a carefully curated list of initiatives, tools, and resources that aim to study, critique and improve our shared online reality. We invite you to get lost, to find things you didn’t know you were looking for, and to connect with new friends and communities – for the only way to free ourselves from this clusterf*ck, is to do it together.
Welcome! You are not alone
Before doomscrolling and dead internet theory became a thing, the internet used to be a place of promise, excitement, and possibility. Surfing the web could be compared to urban flânerie: a surrender to the unexpected, drifting from website to website, from link to link. Serendipitous moments of discovery were free from the aura of suspicion that plagues today’s algorithmically enhanced social media experience (“why am I being shown this content?”), and felt earned, turning linksharing into an act of kinship and community-building.
(W)HOLE shows how, underneath the current desolated surface, the promise of a better digital world is still alive. Understanding the workings and trappings of digital infrastructure is an important first step to revive and fulfill this promise. In the repository, you will find a carefully curated list of initiatives, tools, and resources that aim to study, critique and improve our shared online reality. We invite you to get lost, to find things you didn’t know you were looking for, and to connect with new friends and communities – for the only way to free ourselves from this clusterf*ck, is to do it together.
Godot Isn’t Making It – Where’s Your Ed.at
Godot Isn’t Making It – Where’s Your Ed.at
Summary
A critical essay on the myth of technological salvation, unpacking how automation and AI reproduce labor precarity, alienation, and infrastructural control.
The AI Dark Forest
The AI Dark Forest
Summary
An essay exploring how AI-generated content floods the web, eroding trust and meaning, and calling for human-scale spaces that resist algorithmic manipulation and noise.
Motherfucking Website
Motherfucking Website
Summary
A humorous manifesto advocating for simple, fast, and accessible websites, rejecting bloated design and promoting minimalism as both ecological and user-friendly practice.
World Export
World Export
Summary
An article discussing the open-source feature “World Export” in New Art City, enabling artists to archive, share, and remix virtual exhibitions as collective digital commons.
On Indigenizing the Internet
On Indigenizing the Internet
Summary
An essay advocating for an internet grounded in Indigenous values of reciprocity, care, and community, challenging extractive and colonial models of digital infrastructure.
Solar Low-Tech Magazine
Solar Low-Tech Magazine
Summary
An online magazine powered by solar energy that explores sustainable technologies, resource-conscious design, and practical strategies for a resilient digital future.
How Blogs Broke the Web
How Blogs Broke the Web
Summary
An essay tracing how early blogging culture shifted from open, interconnected publishing to algorithmic platforms, arguing for a return to transparent, community-driven, individually owned web spaces.
Molly Soda on Making Art from Your Online History – The Creative Independent
Molly Soda on Making Art from Your Online History – The Creative Independent
Summary
An interview with artist Molly Soda exploring how personal archives, digital traces, and online identity can become material for intimate, community-rooted art that reclaims agency over one’s digital history.
An Interview With Three Living Members of Archigram
An Interview With Three Living Members of Archigram
Summary
A reflective interview with surviving members of Archigram discussing their 1960s vision of mobile, dynamic architecture and how it speaks to contemporary practices of collaboration and design.
New Models
New Models
Summary
A hybrid media platform publishing critical analysis on technology, culture, and power, examining how digital systems shape politics, aesthetics, labor, and collective behavior through experimental editorial formats.
Scomodo
Scomodo
Summary
Scomodo is a vibrant community born in Rome in 2016, shaping spaces for expression, participation and growth for new generations. Through print, events and local activism they cultivate independent, conscious change.
Allesda – Questions Platform
Allesda – Questions Platform
Summary
An open, community-driven platform for collective inquiry and discussion, encouraging users to share, question, and co-create knowledge beyond commercial social media logic.
Berlin Plattform – Social-ecological urban development hub
Berlin Plattform – Social-ecological urban development hub
Summary
A community-led cultural network in Berlin supporting artists and grassroots organisations through shared resources, collaborative programming, and accessible infrastructures for collective cultural work.
Data Workers Network
Data Workers Network
Summary
Data Workers Network is a collective that advocates for the rights of those producing, labeling, and cleaning data for AI systems. It exposes the hidden labor behind automation and builds alliances for fair conditions and collective refusal of exploitative tech economies.
HTML Energy
HTML Energy
Summary
A community celebrating simple, hand-written HTML pages, promoting minimal, energy-light web design and championing the independent spirit of a small, resilient, user-owned internet.
MEEM Land
MEEM Land
Summary
MEEM Land is a decentralized online community and platform amplifying queer, feminist, and decolonial voices across the Middle East and beyond. It hosts digital gatherings, residencies, and collaborative projects that reimagine cultural infrastructures through collective authorship.
Open Slum – Collaborative Platform for Urban Inclusion
Open Slum – Collaborative Platform for Urban Inclusion
Summary
Open Slum is a collaborative platform promoting visibility and agency for marginalized urban communities. It combines mapping, open data, and participatory tools to document informal settlements and advocate for social and spatial justice.
Read-in
Read-in
Summary
A collective that explores the politics of (collective) reading, focusing on embodied, decolonial, and situated knowledge practices that challenge institutional canons.
FCCWLA – Fairchild Cooperative Community Workshop Los Angeles
FCCWLA – Fairchild Cooperative Community Workshop Los Angeles
Summary
The Fairchild Cooperative Community Workshop (FCCWLA) is a member-run makerspace supporting collective fabrication, mutual aid, and open-source learning. It provides shared tools and knowledge for sustainable production, fostering community-based innovation and repair culture.
Cadastre – A Map of Tilde Town
Cadastre – A Map of Tilde Town
Summary
A collectively maintained map of Tilde Town’s residents, visualizing a distributed social web built on mutual trust, collaboration, and shared autonomy.
Woman Open Tech Lab
Woman Open Tech Lab
Summary
A feminist tech lab in South Korea supporting women and gender-diverse people through workshops, research, and community programmes that promote inclusive, accessible, and socially conscious technological practices.
AIR NYC
AIR NYC
Summary
A community platform and residency network supporting creative exchange, mutual aid, and collaboration among artists, technologists, and activists in New York City.
Arena
Arena
Summary
A collaborative, ad-free platform for organising and sharing knowledge through user-made channels, supporting slow research, collective learning, and non-algorithmic discovery across communities.
Black Feminist World
Black Feminist World
Summary
A global platform centering Black feminist thought through gatherings, research, storytelling, and collective learning, creating shared spaces for liberation, solidarity, and transformative social action.
Choy Commons
Choy Commons
Summary
A community-based cooperative developing open infrastructures for shared food production and digital commons. Choy Commons blends ecological farming with collective governance.
Cybergarden
Cybergarden
Summary
A cozy, early-web-inspired garden where anyone can “plant” projects, sketches, or code. Share interests, explore others’ flowers, and contribute via GitHub.
Fuse Kiwi – Community-Centered Design Platform
Fuse Kiwi – Community-Centered Design Platform
Summary
Fuse is a platform dedicated to building inclusive, community-driven design ecosystems. It connects designers, educators, and technologists to develop collaborative projects centered on accessibility, empathy, and shared authorship.
Graze – No-code custom feeds for Bluesky
Graze – No-code custom feeds for Bluesky
Summary
A lightweight, non-algorithmic social platform focused on small communities, offering a calmer, privacy-minded alternative to mainstream networks through simple, decentralized interaction.
Habitat.care
Habitat.care
Summary
Habitat.care is a collective platform experimenting with digital and physical infrastructures of care. It connects artists, designers, and researchers to build collaborative environments that prioritize accessibility, empathy, and social interdependence.
Hackergarten
Hackergarten
Summary
An open, collaborative community where developers meet to create, share, and improve open-source software through collective experimentation and mentorship.
Interspecies.io
Interspecies.io
Summary
A platform for multispecies collaboration, Interspecies.io connects artists, scientists, and activists to rethink coexistence, communication, and shared habitats between human and nonhuman life.
Matalabel
Matalabel
Summary
A platform supporting creative collectives through tools for publishing, funding, and shared authorship, helping groups build sustainable, community-owned cultural projects outside market-driven models.
Tierra Común
Tierra Común
Summary
Tierra Común is a network of scholars, activists, and technologists working toward data justice from a Global South perspective. It challenges data colonialism and promotes community-led governance of data as a shared resource grounded in local autonomy and solidarity.
Futura Tropica Network
Futura Tropica Network
Summary
A decentralized art and research network connecting practitioners from the Global South to imagine tropical futurisms and collaborative alternatives to Western tech paradigms.
IndieWeb
IndieWeb
Summary
A community of creators building an independent web through open standards, personal websites, and shared protocols that give users control over their data and identity.
Let’s Get Creative Today
Let’s Get Creative Today
Summary
A collection of high-quality, free, online creativity tools, emphasizing joy, collaboration, and the power of collective imagination, with a nod to Web 1.0 aesthetics.
No CSS Club
No CSS Club
Summary
An online community celebrating websites built without CSS, embracing raw HTML aesthetics as a creative and sustainable protest against overdesigned, heavy web standards.
Permacomputing
Permacomputing
Summary
A community exploring sustainable computing practices inspired by permaculture, focusing on energy efficiency, repair, reuse, and ecological awareness in digital design.
Superinternet
Superinternet
Summary
An experimental community hub celebrating small, hand-built websites and playful online creations, fostering discovery and connection across an independent, people-powered corner of the web.
WE-B
WE-B
Summary
A collaborative digital space hosting workshops, research, and creative experiments that explore collective practices, shared learning, and community-driven approaches to technology and cultural production.
Queering the Map
Queering the Map
Summary
A community-generated map where users anonymously share queer memories tied to specific locations, creating a collective archive of lived experience, solidarity, and emotional geography worldwide.
A11yphant – Learn web accessibility by doing
A11yphant – Learn web accessibility by doing
Summary
An educational platform offering interactive lessons and practical exercises to help designers and developers learn accessibility skills, fostering more inclusive, user-focused digital experiences.
Localization Action Guide – Local Futures
Localization Action Guide – Local Futures
Summary
Step-by-step actions to relocalize: strengthen local food, start co-ops, change policy, and run campaigns. Toolkits, examples, and resources to organize in your community.
The Activist Checklist
The Activist Checklist
Summary
The Activist Checklist is an open educational tool that helps individuals and collectives organize, mobilize, and act effectively. It offers practical strategies for activism, digital security, and sustainable engagement in social movements.
Why Do Artists Need Research? – Uniarts Blog
Why Do Artists Need Research? – Uniarts Blog
Summary
An essay exploring how artistic research expands ways of knowing, connecting creative practice with critical inquiry, collaboration, and social engagement.
Code of Design – A Shared Code of Ethics
Code of Design – A Shared Code of Ethics
Summary
A living, community-owned code of ethics for designers. Read the principles, then adapt, critique, and contribute to make design more accountable, inclusive, and responsible.
UCLA Center for the Study of Women – Toolkit for Feminist Research Justice
UCLA Center for the Study of Women – Toolkit for Feminist Research Justice
Summary
A toolkit advancing feminist research justice, offering frameworks and resources for equitable, community-centered methodologies across academia and activism.
Data Capitalism – Data for Black Lives (D4BL)
Data Capitalism – Data for Black Lives (D4BL)
Summary
Created by Data for Black Lives, this educational resource unpacks the structural links between capitalism, racism, and data extraction. It exposes how algorithmic systems reproduce inequality while offering frameworks for data justice and collective liberation.
Data Detox Kit – Tactical Tech
Data Detox Kit – Tactical Tech
Summary
The Data Detox Kit by Tactical Tech is a practical guide to reclaiming digital privacy. It offers simple steps to reduce online tracking, manage data exposure, and build healthier habits in everyday tech use-empowering users to take control over their digital lives.
Personal Security Checklist
Personal Security Checklist
Summary
A practical security guide offering accessible lessons, tools, and strategies that help individuals strengthen their digital safety, protect personal data, and navigate online threats with confidence.
Embrace Autism
Embrace Autism
Summary
A resource platform for autism awareness, inclusive design, and neurodiversity. It promotes acceptance, accessibility, and self-understanding through science-based and community-driven content.
Fingerspelling.xyz
Fingerspelling.xyz
Summary
An interactive learning tool that teaches American Sign Language through motion-tracking and play. It promotes accessible, embodied learning for all users.
The Glass Room – GAFAM Empire
The Glass Room – GAFAM Empire
Summary
The Glass Room: GAFAM Empire is an interactive educational project that exposes the dominance of tech giants-Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft. Through visual storytelling, it reveals how data extraction and surveillance capitalism shape everyday digital life.
Onym – Open-source naming resources
Onym – Open-source naming resources
Summary
A curated guide to naming: methods, checklists, generators, dictionaries, legal checks, and examples. Start here to brainstorm, vet, and refine brand/product names.
Self-Organized Infrastructural Explorations (H&D)
Self-Organized Infrastructural Explorations (H&D)
Summary
A collaborative program where designers and technologists experiment with building and repairing their own tools and networks, exploring hands-on, community-driven alternatives to centralized infrastructures.
How to Build an Archive – A Practical Guide
How to Build an Archive – A Practical Guide
Summary
Step-by-step resource to start, organize, and care for a community archive: goals, metadata, consent, preservation, access, and tools-adaptable templates and checklists included.
Is Our Economy Fair? – Wall Street and Slavery
Is Our Economy Fair? – Wall Street and Slavery
Summary
Part of the Is Our Economy Fair? project, this resource exposes the historical ties between Wall Street, slavery, and racial capitalism. It provides educational tools to understand how economic infrastructures reproduce systemic injustice and colonial legacies.
Accessible AI – Inclusive Machine Learning Practices
Accessible AI – Inclusive Machine Learning Practices
Summary
A public-facing initiative sharing accessible explanations, resources, and community events about AI, helping people understand machine learning’s impacts and encouraging inclusive, responsible tech engagement.
Tools for Radical Study – A Collection of Manuals (MARCH International)
Tools for Radical Study – A Collection of Manuals (MARCH International)
Summary
A curated collection of open-access manuals that promote self-organized learning, collective pedagogy, and critical study. It encourages collaborative methods and horizontal knowledge exchange within artistic and activist practices.
Parable of the Polygons – Nicky Case
Parable of the Polygons – Nicky Case
Summary
An interactive explainer showing how small individual biases can lead to large-scale segregation, inviting users to experiment with simple rules and understand systemic social patterns through play.
Infinite Craft – Neal.fun
Infinite Craft – Neal.fun
Summary
A playful combinatorial sandbox where users merge elements to create unexpected worlds, encouraging exploration, creativity, and shared discovery through simple, open-ended interaction.
Poetic Computer – An Exploration of Code as Creative Medium
Poetic Computer – An Exploration of Code as Creative Medium
Summary
Poetic Computer is an educational and artistic resource dedicated to the creative use of code. It celebrates programming as a poetic, playful, and critical medium-encouraging students and artists to reimagine computation as an expressive and emancipatory practice.
Precarity Pilot
Precarity Pilot
Summary
A platform offering resources and workshops to help cultural workers navigate precarity, focusing on collective strategies for survival, solidarity, and structural change